While the Other Networks Air Almost Nothing, FNC's Carl Cameron is Developing Chinagate Scoops

There's No One But Fox to Follow Up Cox

Fox News Channel airs the slogan "We report, you decide." On the Chinese spy
scandal, FNC has been doing the reporting, while the other networks have offered almost
nothing to help people make a decision. FNC's Carl Cameron is all alone on the TV China
beat.

June 3:Testing a Second Missile. Cameron reported: "This has caught U.S.
military and intelligence officials off guard. China now plans to move up its development
timetable and later this year will test not one but two new intercontinental ballistic
missiles capable of hitting the U.S. The second is particularly surprising because it
comes years before any U.S. analyst had predicted China would be able to do it and because
of how similar it will be to the top weapon in the U.S. arsenal." Cameron added:
"Frustrated FBI agents say the Justice Department should have already asked a grand
jury to indict fired Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee. Counter-intelligence sources say a
sting operation caught Lee mishandling secrets in 1997." Other network coverage?
Zero.

June 8: O'Leary's Leak. Cameron reported allegations made by
Republicans such as Rep. Curt Weldon: "Now come allegations that former Clinton
administration Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary leaked classified nuclear weapons
information personally in 1995 to U.S. News & World Report. After the
magazine published this classified design information on the W-87 warhead, an
investigation began to find the leak. Sources say DOE brass abruptly canceled the probe to
prevent O'Leary embarrassment. Lawmakers now want that suspected cover up
investigated." Other network coverage? Zero.

June 9: Deliberate Incompetence? Cameron reported on a Senate hearing
with Energy Secretary Bill Richardson: "The chief of Energy Department
counter-intelligence, Ed Curran, accompanied Richardson and found himself under fire for
claiming several days ago that the Senate knew about China's spying in 1996 and failed to
act. The Vice Chairman of the committee, Democrat Bob Kerrey, scolded Curran for being
both inaccurate and too partisan." Kerrey said: "It carried a tone that sounded
as if it was written by the political shop over at the White House." He added:
"Curran sat by and watched as his boss acknowledged that the comments and the facts
were wrong."

Cameron concluded with this exclusive: "In rare closed door testimony, Fox News
has learned that frustrated rank and file FBI agents told lawmakers that they found ample
evidence of Chinese espionage but felt thwarted by senior Justice Department officials.
Now sources say lawmakers will look into the possibility of what's called, quote,
'deliberate incompetence' by Justice Department officials to sweep it under the
carpet." Other network coverage? Zero.

June 10: Trie Destroyed Evidence. Cameron reported how Charlie Trie
destroyed documents, (noted in recent print accounts of his plea deal but not mentioned
elsewhere on TV), and added fresh information about how the FBI was thwarted: "The
President appointed his long-time friend and fundraiser Charlie Trie of Little Rock to a
trade commission to deal with Hong Kong and other Asian nations. Trie has pleaded guilty
to fundraising violations and is cooperating with investigators, but in 1997 FBI
surveillance observed Trie's employees destroying evidence in the campaign fundraising
investigation. At the time, the Justice Department sent two officials to Little Rock to
get search warrants and intervene. But on the eve of Senate hearings into campaign finance
abuse, the Justice Department pulled back on the warrants and the search of Trie's office,
and frustrated FBI agents watched as more documents were destroyed." Other network
coverage? Zero. ­- Tim Graham